Sale Turf Club president Thelma Coster called for a minute's silence at 2pm for the families who had lost family members and possessions in the Black Saturday fires one year ago.

The feature event on the card, the Sale Quality over 1200 metres, carried prize money of $80,000 and it was great to see locally-trained horses finish in the top four in such a quality field.

Seven-year-old grey Stanzout, ridden by Danny Brereton, won from local galloper Miss Matari, trained by Kevin Milham and ridden by Glen Boss.

Caulfield galloper Zedi Knight, ridden by Chris Symons, finished in third place and close behind in fourth was Ian Hutchin's Emjay Hussey, who was ridden by Peter Hutchinson.

As a young horse, Stanzout finished second to Apache Cat but was out for two years with a severe leg injury and had to be nursed back into racing.

Trainer Colin Davies said the win at Sale was very encouraging while Brereton said he had been watching Stanzout's progress and hoped to ride the grey, who now has seven wins and seven placings and prize money of just over $500,000 from only 31 starts.

Part owner Richard Waldron from Frankston congratulated trainer Davies for the outstanding work he had done over two years in getting Stanzout back into racing after such a serious injury.

Milham's Miss Matari, who finished second, has been in outstanding form, with a win and a placing at Caulfield, a placing at Sandown and three placings at Sale. The four-year-old mare has not missed a placing in six starts.

Hutchin's Emjay Hussey has also been impressive with wins at Sale, Moonee Valley and Sandown.

Flemington-trained Buzzwin, ridden by Dwayne Dunn, won the first race, the three-year-old maiden plate.

Legalistic, trained by David Hayes and ridden by Brad Rawiller, won race two, the two-year-old maiden plate.

Mornington trainer Pat Carey and Ben Melham combined to win race three, the 1200m maiden, with long shot Karoo, who paid $27 for the win. Peter Moody's well-backed Trounce finished second.